To paraphrase the line about families,
you can’t choose your native-born Americans—but you can choose your
immigrants. Our immigration system will be working when the number of
immigrants who commit crimes is zero.

Why would any country import other
countries’ criminals? What could possibly be on the plus side of the
ledger, with “criminal” on the minus side? Since the United Nations
isn’t yet demanding that America allow everyone in the world to
immigrate here, couldn’t we at least discriminate on the basis of felon
vs. non-felon? Maybe we could do a triage:

1.) Helpful to country;

2.) Not helpful to country, but not a felon;

3.) Felon.

Here’s another idea: Instead of the
Census Bureau collecting detailed information about how many rental
units have “broken or missing stair railings” (382,000 in 2010) or have
had mold in their bathrooms in the last twelve months (1.1 million in
2010), how about the government tell us how many immigrants have
committed crimes? Determining the number of foreign born in the criminal
justice system doesn’t rely on taking surveys, trusting Americans to
accurately report on their stair railings, and hiring teams of
statisticians to spend years analyzing the data. We just need the
government to count. Unlike mold in private homes, criminals have come
into significant contact with the government—cops, prosecutors, judges,
and prison guards. And we’re already paying those guys’ salaries. As
important as the number of carports in America is, it’s also important
to know how many immigrants are committing crimes.

With the government keeping that
information locked in a steel casket at Fort Knox, one has to look at
ancillary facts. The available data suggest that the crime rate among
immigrants is astronomical. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
for example, inadvertently issued a report indicating that there are
twice as many foreign-born criminals as the GAO’s estimate. In 2006, the
DHS stated that 605,000 foreign-born criminals would be arrested by
state and local law enforcement in 2007 alone. That’s double the
number of illegal aliens for whom the states requested reimbursement in
2009. If the DHS’s estimate is correct, then nearly a third of the 2
million prisoners in state and local facilities that year14 were foreign born.

Piecing together state and federal
reports, it appears that half the correctional population in California
consists of illegal aliens. According to a state report, there were
fewer than two hundred thousand inmates in the entire California prison
population, including mental hospitals, in 2009. That year, 102,795
illegal aliens were incarcerated in California, costing the state more
than $1 billion a year. Texas counts only illegal aliens who have
already been fingerprinted by the Department of Homeland Security. Even
with that limitation, Texas arrests more than thirty-two thousand
criminal aliens a year.

Then there is the explosion of America’s
prison population since we began admitting millions of Third World
immigrants in the 1970s. From 1925 until 1970, a steady 0.1 percent of
the population was in state or federal prison. Thus, in 1925, when the
U.S. population was 100 million, there were about one hundred thousand
people in prison; and in 1970, when there were 200 million Americans,
there were two hundred thousand in prison. Then, suddenly, just as a
very different sort of immigrant began to be admitted under Teddy
Kennedy’s 1965 immigration act, the prison population skyrocketed. If
the incarceration rate had remained the same, there would only be about
310,000 people in prison today. Instead, there are more than 2 million
prisoners in America. Since 1970, the U.S. population has increased by
one-third, but the prison population has nearly sextupled. A lot of
factors affect incarceration rates—liberal judges, destructive social
programs, illegitimacy, and social decay. But those come and go.
Immigration is forever.

lunes, diciembre 08, 2014

Under the executive amnesty immigration action from President Barack
Obama, internal administration documents show the administration is
considering allowing terrorists, transnational criminals, and anyone
else who wants to enter or stay inside the United States to not even
answer if they’ve ever been connected with a crime.

The internal Obama administration documents, obtained by Breitbart
News through a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) source, include a
draft application for illegal immigrants seeking to stay in the country
and future prospective immigrants seeking to the enter the country.

On the draft application, applicants for “T nonimmigrant status” or
for “U nonimmigrant status” are not required to answer a series of key
questions about their background. T nonimmigrant visas are for people
who are petitioning the U.S. government to be considered a “victim of a
severe form of trafficking in person” and U nonimmigrant visas are for
those seeking to be considered a “victim of criminal activity.”

Part of the president’s executive immigration action is to expand T
and U visas. In order to engage in “[p]rotecting victims of crime and
human trafficking as well as workers,” a White House fact sheet on the
president’s executive action reads, “[t]he Department of Labor (DOL) is
expanding and strengthening immigration options for victims of crimes (U
visas) and trafficking (T visas) who cooperate in government
investigations.”

This draft application form shows the administration is considering
not requiring such applicants to answer whether they’ve ever been in the
U.S. for a “period of 6 months or more,” whether they’ve ever “filed an
application or petition for immigration benefits with the U.S.
government” or one has been filed on their behalf, whether they have
ever been “denied or referred an immigration benefit by the U.S.
Government, or had a benefit revoked or terminated (including but not
limited to visas) or if they’ve ever been connected legally with a
crime—regardless of its seriousness—inside or outside the United States
of America."

That last question is the operative one. Such applicants claiming
they are victims of human trafficking or of any crime any where won’t,
if this Obama administration proposal becomes final, have to answer:
“Have you EVER, in or outside the United States, been arrested, cited,
charged, indicted, fined, convicted, or imprisoned for breaking or
violating any law or ordinance, excluding minor traffic violations?
Describe in detail. Include all offenses where impaired driving may have
been an issue. If you answered ‘Yes,’ describe the incident in detail
and include all offenses where impaired driving was an issue in Part 6
Additional Information [which is later in the application].”

The document is technically a draft offered to change the current
U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Services (USCIS) application form I-192
in connection with Obama’s executive amnesty action. USCIS form I-192
is the “application for advance permission to enter as nonimmigrant” for
those seeking to enter the country. This draft USCIS document is dated
Oct. 29, 2014, and specifically states on each page in background text
that this document is “Not For Reproduction.”

Accompanying the document which contains the proposed changes to the
I-192 form is an “ICE Regulations” internal email sent to several ICE
officials and DHS staffers, asking them to comment on the proposed USCIS
changes for Obama’s executive order. “Please find attached for your
review a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USCIS) advance copy
of proposed changes to the USCIS Form I-192, Application for Advance
Permission to Enter as a Nonimmigrant, which expires April 30, 2015,”
the email address “ICE Regulations” sent to a list of top internal ICE
staffers on Nov. 4, 2014—on election day, as the American people
rejected the president’s executive amnesty—at 9:49 a.m. exactly with the
“importance" label of “high."

“Summary: USCIS would like ICE and CBP to review and comment on the
attached package for Form I-192, Application for Advance Permission to
Enter as a Nonimmigrant, which expires 04/30/15,” the internal email
reads:

Minor non-substantive corrections are made to the form as
well as standard language and formatting updates. Changes from the
existing form package are noted in red font and standard language used
in all USCIS form packages (which should not require review) is noted in
purple. To aid your review Word translations of the PDFs are included.
Please use Track Changes, comment bubbles, and highlighting to indicate
your requested edits. Word conversions are not 1-for-1 and some spelling
and formatting errors may be present and do not need to be noted.

The email specifically notes that DHS employees who received this
document are not allowed to publish it or share with it anyone without
express prior approval. “Authorization for Sharing: Do not share this
draft rule, in whole or in part, with anyone outside of DHS without
first obtaining authorization for such disclosure from the DHS OGC
Regulatory Affairs Law Division," it reads, before noting the deadline
for comments internally on this matter were due by noon on Friday, Nov.
14—six days before Obama’s executive amnesty announcement.

At this time it’s unclear if these provisions included in the draft
USCIS changes regarding T and U visas—or any other of the changes—will
make it into the final documents for the president’s executive amnesty
order. Those new documents are not public yet, and it’s unclear when
they will be.

Breitbart News has reached out to USCIS and ICE for comment, and both
were unavailable to comment on the documents by press time, but have
confirmed they’ve received press requests. We’ll update as we get more
information on this front.

The revelation that the president’s executive amnesty is even
considering allowing anyone associated with criminal activity in the
U.S. or abroad, including terrorism, to get U or T visas without
answering questions regarding their potential criminal history could
blow up negations on Capitol Hill right now for a long-term omnibus
spending deal. Sometime later on Monday, or early on Tuesday, House
Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) is expected
to—with Speaker John Boehner’s blessing—introduce a “CR-omnibus”
spending package that will fund all of government except DHS through the
end of the 2015 fiscal year in September and will fund DHS, including
Obama’s amnesty—and these efforts by USCIS to process potential
criminals under T and U visas—through at least March. Many rank-and-file
Republicans in the House have been furious with GOP leaders on this
matter.

jueves, septiembre 18, 2014

On
Tuesday it was reported that federal authorities in the United States
have been interviewing Cuban baseball players in the MLB to obtain more
information about alleged smuggling rings that have brought a number of
them to the United States.

A man by the name of Gilberto Suarez was charged for his alleged role in smuggling Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig out of Cuba and into the U.S. The 40-year-old pleaded not guilty
to a charge of alien smuggling conspiracy last week and investigators
are seeking millions of dollars in cash and purchases that Suarez
allegedly received from Puig's $42 million contract.

Court documents also indicated back in April that Puig, and a Cuban
boxer who was also smuggled to the U.S. during the same operation, have
been receiving death threats
from their alleged smugglers because of unpaid debts. Suarez and others
allegedly financed the $400,000 smuggling trip, which took Puig and the
boxer, Yunior Despaigne, by boat to Isla Mujeres near Cancun, Mexico.
The two were then taken to Mexico City by ferry and granted residency by
the Mexican government. Puig was then soon signed to a $42 million
contract by the Los Angeles Dodgers, of which he reportedly owes 20% to both the Cuban- and Mexican-based smugglers.

According to sources,
Puig has been interviewed on several occasions and is fully cooperating
with federal authorities throughout the investigation. The feds are
looking to solve the Suarez case, which almost mirrors that of Eliezer
Lazo. The 41-year-old Lazo pleaded guilty in August to U.S. extortion
charges involving the smuggling of more than 1,000 Cubans that netted
him $1.5 million, according to assistant U.S. Attorney Ron Davidson. His smuggling venture is believed to have included Texas Rangers outfielder Leonys Martin.

In the documents for Suarez's case, Puig is believed to be the person
who is referred to as "Y.P." and there are two others - "M.A.G." and
"A.D." - that investigators are seeking out to find out what they know. Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez and Aledmys Diaz
are two other MLB players who are believed to be paying smugglers a cut
of their contract, as it was discovered Puig was doing when "at least
one person affiliated with the Mexican-based smugglers who initially got
Puig out of Cuba showed up at the Dodgers' team hotel and demanded Puig
pay the money they felt they were still owed," ESPN reported back in April.

Both the U.S. and Cuban governments are seeking out these smugglers
and are recruiting baseball players to become informants regarding the
subject. Secret police in Cuba are believed to be watching the Cuban
players within their country to obtain information about the smugglers,
while U.S. officials are calling MLB teams to speak with any Cuban
players on their rosters.

highlights attempts to violate Canada’s immigration
system, examines Venezuela’s role as a “bridge” for Iranian covert
access to Canada, reviews the use of cultural exchange and other soft
power strategies to win support for state sponsors of terrorism, and
presents preliminary policy recommendations for strengthening Canada’s
immigration and national security system

The report’s key points are:

Iran is cooperating with Venezuela and Cuba to exploit the seams in the Canadian immigration system.

From 2009 t0 2011, Latin America was the largest embarkation region
for improperly documented Iranians migrating to Canada who seek refugee
status.

Venezuelan authorities provided at least 173 passports, visas and
other documentation to Islamist extremists seeking to slip unnoticed
into North America.

Soft power solidarity networks in Canada serve as a “Trojan Horse”
for Iran and ALBA to establish cover for spies, saboteurs and other
nefarious actors.

Less than a year after Canada shuttered the Iranian
embassy in Ottawa, the Iranian regime opened an “unofficial” consulate
in Montreal and began shuttling paperwork back and forth to the Iranian
embassy in Cuba for processing.

Especially interesting: the sections on how Cuba’s role in the Misión Identidad
(biometric ID cards) immigration system facilitates the entry of Cuban
agents into Venezuela, and Tare[c]k El Aissami’s role as Iran, Syria and
Hezbollah’s man in Mérida.

Read more about Iranian infiltration in Canada and the Americas here >>

Santo Domingo.- As a result of the Seventh Round of Cuba-Dominican
Republic Migration Talks, which took place at the Foreign Relations
Ministry, the two countries signed an immigration agreement aimed at
regulating illegal immigration.

The agreement was signed by
Immigration Agency director Jose Taveras and Consular and Immigration
Affairs Deputy minister Nelly Perez. The Cuban delegation was headed by
ambassador Rafael Daussa, who was accompanied by Cuban ambassador in the
Dominican Republic
Alexis Bandrich Vega.

According to elnacional.com.do, Taveras
said that due to the lack of opportunitiethe and the existance of
inequalities, the migration phenomenon will continue to be a problem
that requires
attention by the states. "That is why cooperation for the order and
legality in migration flows is an imperative in our
times."

Smuggling cases involving Cubans, including baseball
players, have been heard lately in Santo Domingo and Santiago courts.
Among the Cuban professionals who have migrated to the Dominican
Republic illegally are journalists, doctors and teachers.

The coming executive actions to change immigration policy could
become the defining moment in a second term marred by congressional
gridlock. Amid fierce debate over the crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border they
also could set up a potential political firestorm just weeks before the
crucial midterm elections. Perhaps most importantly, Obama's coming
executive actions could also test the limits of presidential power.

"Depending on how far they go, yes," David Martin, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who specializes in immigration law, told Business Insider. "It could be a significant challenge to the scope of presidential power."

The White House has provided few hints on what Obama will do on
immigration as a review by the Departments of Justice and Homeland
Security on his options is still ongoing. The Washington Post has reported,
based on readouts of meetings among White House officials,
congressional Democrats, and activist groups, that Obama could
effectively expand the Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals program.
DACA, as it is known, has shielded hundreds of thousands of young
undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation.

According to the Washington Post report, the Obama administration is considering providing "temporary
relief for law-abiding undocumented immigrants who are closely related
to U.S. citizens or those who have lived in the country a certain number
of years." The number of people who could fit under those descriptions
might be as high as five million.

"We're asking the president to
really go as broad as he can go," Cristina Jimenez, the cofounder and
managing director of the group United We Dream, told Business Insider,
adding: "He has a chance to make one of the boldest moves he possibly
could. It depends on how he wants to be remembered."

United We Dream was one of a few
groups that gave up rather early on the idea Congress would pass any
sort of legislative reform to the nation's immigration policy. The group
stopped lobbying Congress on the issue long before House Speaker John
Boehner informed Obama in late June that the House would not take up any immigration-related legislation this year.

Jimenez said United We Dream then made
Obama its "primary target," because he has the authority to enforce the
law. As most proponents of immigration reform see it, Obama's options
for executive actions fit into two categories, as laid out earlier this
year by the left-leaning Center for American Progress:

"Enforcement reforms" — in which, for example, the administration
would choose to place a lower priority on undocumented immigrants who do
not have a criminal history or who have extensive community ties.

"Affirmative relief" — involves identifying the low-priority
individuals and creating a program for them to earn relief from
deportation, such as in the case of the DACA program.

"The broader point is that if, in fact, House Republicans are
concerned about me acting independently of Congress — despite the fact
that I’ve taken fewer executive actions than my Republican predecessor
or my Democratic predecessor before that, or the Republican predecessor
before that — then the easiest way to solve it is passing legislation.
Get things done," Obama said.

Some legal experts, as well as supporters of any potential executive
action, think the administration is on solid legal ground to take the
steps described in reports — despite the White House's repeated claims
earlier this year that its hands were tied.

Others, like Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the
conservative-leaning Center for Immigration Studies, disagree. Krikorian
argued that though much smaller versions of the DACA program have been
pursued by presidents in the past, they were usually in emergency
situations in which the president did not have time to wait for
Congress.

Krikorian said an expansion of the DACA program to as many as five
million people could constitute a fundamental change in executive power —
from a constitutional system with checks and balances to one that could
run on "decree."

"He doesn't give a rat's ass about the Constitution," Krikorian said of Obama.

Krikorian said Obama's executive actions could be a slippery
slope for future presidents. One example he gave: A Republican President
Chris Christie, for instance, could want to reform the corporate tax
code. Facing opposition from Congress, he would decide that his
administration would simply not prosecute corporations that don't pay
more than 25% in taxes.

However, Ben Winograd, an attorney at the Immigrant and Refugee
Appellate Center, rejected Krikorian's analogy. Winograd told Business
Insider the federal government always has the discretion to enforce the
law as it wishes or sees capable — and does so already, to an extent, in
deciding which types of violators of tax laws it wants to go after.

"If
the complaint is that, 'Well, so and so isn't following the law as we'd
like him to,' then the only remedy for that is political," Winograd
said. "You can vote them out at the ballot box, or you can try to bring
articles of impeachment. But to say you are violating the law by not
enforcing the law to an extent we'd like — I mean, it's a non sequitur.
It doesn't make sense."

The key element the administration must follow is adhering to the resources allocated by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act requires the executive branch to spend the money appropriated by Congress toward the purpose designated by Congress.

Congress has appropriated enough funds to deport about 400,000 people
a year. The administration deported nearly 370,000 undocumented
immigrants last year, according to statistics released by the Department of Homeland Security.

Martin, the Virginia law professor, told Business Insider the
administration could theoretically adhere to those guidelines for at
least a few years while expanding deferred action. But absent
legislative action from Congress, it might be hard to continue on a
long-term basis.

domingo, agosto 03, 2014

LUBBOCK, Texas — A leaked intelligence analysis from the Customs and
Border Protection (CBP) reveals the exact numbers of illegal immigrants
entering and attempting to enter the U.S. from nearly every nation on
Earth. The report was obtained by a trusted source within the CBP agency
who leaked the document and spoke with Breitbart Texas on the condition
of anonymity. The report is labeled as "Unclassified//For Official Use
Only." The report indicates that the data should be handled as
"Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU)."

The numbers provided are in graphics and are broken down into “OFO”
and “OBP.” The Customs and Border Protection agency is divided into the
Office of Field Operations (OFO) and the Office of Border Patrol (OBP).
The OFO numbers reflect anyone either turning themselves in at official
U.S. points of entry, or anyone caught while being smuggled at the
points of entry. The OBP numbers reflect anyone being caught or turning
themselves in to Border Patrol agents between the points of entry, or
anyone caught at interior checkpoints by Border Patrol agents. The “OFO
Inadmissible” designation to any individual from a nation other than
Mexico or Canada means that U.S. authorities took the individuals into
custody. Whether they were deported or given a Notice to Appear is
unknown. It is important to note these numbers do not include data from
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The unavailable ICE data
are in addition to these numbers.

The report reveals the apprehension numbers ranging from 2010 through
July 2014. It shows that most of the human smuggling from Syria and
Albania into the U.S. comes through Central America. The report also
indicates the routes individuals from North Africa and the Middle East
take into the European Union, either to illegally migrate there or as a
possible stop in their journey to the United States. The data are broken
down further into the specific U.S. border sectors where the
apprehensions and contact occurred.

Among the significant revelations are that as of July 20, 2014, 1,443
individuals from China were caught sneaking across the porous U.S.
border this year alone, with another 1,803 individuals either turning
themselves in to U.S. authorities at official ports of entry, or being
caught attempting to illegally enter at the ports of entry. This comes
amid a massive crackdown by Chinese authorities of Islamic terrorists in
the Communist nation.

Twenty-eight individuals from Pakistan were caught attempting to
sneak into the U.S. this year alone, with another 211 individuals either
turning themselves in or being caught at official ports of entry.

Thirteen Egyptians were caught trying to sneak into the U.S. this
year alone, with another 168 either turning themselves in or being
caught at official ports of entry.

Four individuals from Yemen were caught attempting to sneak into the
U.S. by Border Patrol agents in 2014 alone, with another 34 individuals
either turning themselves in or being caught attempting to sneak through
official ports of entry. Yemen is not the only nation with individuals
who pose terror risks to the U.S. that the report indicates travel from.
The failed nation of Somalia, known as a hotbed of Islamic terror
activity, was also referenced in the report. Four individuals from
Somalia were caught trying to sneak into the U.S. by Border Patrol
agents in 2014. Another 290 either turned themselves in or were caught
attempting to sneak in at official ports of entry. This reporter previously covered the issue of illegal immigration into the U.S. from Somalia and other nations in the Horn of Africa.

In addition to the individuals from terror-prone nations who attempted to illegally enter the U.S., individuals from nations currently suffering from the world’s largest Ebola outbreak
have been caught attempting to sneak across the porous U.S. border into
the interior of the United States. At least 71 individuals from the
three nations affected by the current Ebola outbreak have either turned
themselves in or been caught attempting to illegally enter the U.S. by
U.S. authorities between January 2014 and July 2014.

In New York City, First Lady Michelle Obama spoke
at the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) convention,
promising that her husband would act on his own to fix the broken
immigration system.

“So make no mistake about it, we have to keep on fighting as hard as we
can on immigration,” she said as the crowd cheered. “And as my husband
has said, he’s going to do whatever administrative action it takes to
fix this broken system.”

Obama reminded the attendees that they couldn’t wait for Congress to act
on their future and urged them to seize opportunities on their own.

“We cannot afford to wait on Congress to lift up our next generation. We
can’t afford to wait on anybody when it comes to our kids’ future,” she
said. “Your grandparents and parents didn’t wait for opportunities to
come to them. No, they packed up their families and moved to this
country for a better life.”

The First Lady reminded them of the history of social injustices that
Latinos suffered in America which inspired the founder of LULAC to start
his organization in 1929.

“Back then, Latinos were being brutalized and killed by police and
lynched by the KKK,” she said. “‘No Mexicans Allowed’ signs hung outside
of restaurants and storefronts. Latinos often couldn’t own property or
serve on a jury. And if you walked into a public building, you’d often
see not two water fountains, but three -- one white, one black, and one
brown.”

Whatever happened to the Obama administration’s guiding principle never to let a serious crisis go to waste?

Ex-White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel pronounced this shockingly
brazen political principle before a group of Wall Street executives in
November 2008.

He said this even before President Obama took office. It was after
that historic election, a time when the president was riding high on a
wave of good will and political euphoria that few American politicians
have ever enjoyed. It was also a time when the president’s party
controlled both chambers of Congress and could have approved just about
any agenda the White House could dream up.

Mr. Emanuel was, at the time, speaking about the financial crisis
that was savaging the stock market, straining unemployment rolls and
simultaneously spiking both foreclosed homes and homelessness across the
country.

“Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are
now immediate and must be dealt with,” Mr. Emanuel elaborated. “This
crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not
do before.”

Machiavellian? Sure. But, boy, did that crew talk a big game back
then. It really sounded like they knew what they were talking about.

And he struck a bipartisan chord back then that sounds laughable
today, knowing now how utterly hollow those words would turn out to be.

“The good news, I suppose, if you want to see a silver lining, is
that the problems are big enough that they lend themselves to ideas from
both parties for the solution,” Mr. Emanuel cooed.

You mean like, say, Obamacare? The single biggest, most strictly
partisan government program ever created? These people have taken
partisanship to its nastiest level in more than 80 years. Heck, Mr.
Obama has turned partisanship against even his own party. When he
doesn’t get his way, he goes around even fellow Democrats in Congress
with his unconstitutional gambits.

So what did Mr. Emanuel’s “serious crisis” unwasted get us?

National debt exploded 70 percent to a staggering $17 trillion.
Unemployment went from 6.8 percent up to 10 percent where it hovered for
about a year and a half and is finally back down now to 6.1 percent.
Today, a record 92 million Americans are no longer in the workforce, a
rate of hopeless indolence not seen in the USA since Jimmy Carter was
president.

Maybe America would have been better off if they had just decided to waste that serious crisis.

Now Mr. Obama faces another “serious crisis.” This one almost entirely of his own making.

Tens of thousands of children wandering the desert alone or
shepherded by the modern equivalent of slave traders across the
U.S.-Mexico border. Untold numbers have died, been raped and murdered.

All because Mr. Obama has promised to make them free Americans if
they just touch our blessed borders — or at least that is the message
the president conveys to these children and their families.

One little boy told a reporter through an interpreter: “He’s helping
us. He signed papers and said all Guatemalans who come to the United
States can stay. He’s helping us.”

Just look at the facts. Enforcement of immigration laws is a joke in
the United States and everybody in South and Central America knows it.
Then, Mr. Obama himself unilaterally granted amnesty to children in the
U.S. illegally.

How does he now claim to be surprised by the humanitarian crisis of
children flooding the border? What did he think would happen?

If ever there were a serious crisis not to let “go to waste,” it is this one now.

The president could finally get serious about enforcing immigration
laws on businesses that hire illegals. He could begin real deportations.
And he could send the starkest message yet by returning the children
streaming across the border to their families back home.

Instead, the president keeps harping about “comprehensive immigration
reform,” which is politicalese for refusing to enforce border laws
until a widespread amnesty process is approved for all illegals. Of
course, this is precisely why we have the humanitarian crisis on the
border in the first place.

Mr. Obama plans to travel to Texas this week to attend political
fundraisers. Astonishingly, the White House says that while is he
collecting political campaign cash, he has no plans to visit the border.

Indeed, a serious crisis wasted by a president who apparently does not care.

miércoles, julio 02, 2014

As thousands of illegal immigrants have crossed the U.S. Southern
Border and flooded into Texas and many are now being flown into
California, one member of a Latino pro-immigration organization claims
that "This issue with the children could be the Rosa Parks moment in the
immigration debate.”

ABC10 reported that the first of several planes
carrying illegal aliens from Central America, which was scheduled to
land Tuesday at 10:00 a.m., will be transporting the passengers to
Murrieta for screening and relocation. Enrique Morones, one of the
leaders of Border Angels, a group
sympathetic to illegal immigration, plans on spearheading efforts to
bring blankets, food, and immigration services to California’s new
inhabitants. "If they get sent back, they'll be killed, they'll die," he
insists.

Just as Rosa Parks refusing to be moved to the back of the bus
defined the beginning of the civil rights movement in America, Morones
contends so will the children crossing the border be the defining moment
for illegal immigration acceptance. He says, “All of a sudden the
switch is going to go on, and we're going to go, 'Oh my god, what are we
doing?'"

Morones implies that the reason illegal immigrants from Mexico and
Central America are not wanted in certain communities is racism. "If
these kids were Canadian kids, we wouldn't be having this discussion,"
he asserted.

According to ABC10, protester Diana Serafin is leading a charge of
hundreds in Murrieta against the illegal aliens' coming to their
suburban community. She and others oppose the relocation plan and see
themselves as preventing crime and the spread of diseases like
tuberculosis. "The Border Patrol sent me the sheet of everything they
have to do to protect themselves from the diseases," the appalled
Serafin explained. "Right here locally at Murrieta we were sent this."

One of President Obama’s first moves toward trying to “fix” the U.S.
immigration system without Congress will almost certainly be to expand
on his 2012 executive order postponing deportation for potentially
millions of young illegal immigrants, say experts on both sides of the
debate.

Obama will likely sidestep Congress on immigration reform by
expanding on his so-called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
memorandum, which essentially allows young illegal immigrants to remain
in the United States if they were brought into the country illegally by
their parents and have not been convicted of a major crime, Federation
for American Immigration Reform spokesman Ira Mehlman predicted.

“I expect him to continue to ignore U.S. immigration law,” Mehlman
said. “This can all be traced back to the DACA program … under the guise
of not splitting up families.”

Although many Republicans believe President Obama is overreaching on
the issue by advancing his immigration agenda without the support of
Congress, there is broad support among Latinos, labor groups and other
Democrat constituencies for him to act unilaterally.

The idea of extending delayed deportation to parents of young illegal
immigrants also appears popular among Hispanic voters and will likely
be recommended to the president by pro-immigration-reform groups with
whom he has reportedly met in recent weeks.

A poll of registered Hispanic voters for the Center for American
Progress Action Fund found strong support for renewing DACA as well as
delaying deportation for the parents of young illegals protected under
the program, people married to U.S. citizens and those living illegally
in the United States for more than 10 years.

The respondents were “super excited” about such actions if they
included the option of a work permit for illegals, said Gary Sugura of
Latino Decisions, the opinion research group that conducted the poll. He
also pointed out that Democratic candidates running in 2014 and beyond
would benefit significantly from such changes.

The respondents were less supportive of so-called prosecutorial
discretion, which essentially gives immigration officials say over which
cases to pursue and prosecute.

As a sign of just how important the work permit issue is to
pro-immigration advocates, particularly big business and organized
labor, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Janet Murguia, head of the
National Council of La Raza, a Latino advocacy group, on Tuesday called
on Obama to provide work permits to everyone who would have been
eligible for citizenship under the bipartisan immigration bill passed
last year by the Senate.

Obama has already taken the first step in directing Homeland Security
Secretary Jeh Johnson and Attorney General Eric Holder to shift
resources from the U.S. interior to the Mexico border. And he has asked
both for recommendations by the end of summer on the types of executive
actions he could take.

“And I intend to adopt those recommendations without further delay,” Obama said in his Rose Garden remarks Monday.

In addition, the Center for American Progress, the liberal-leaning
think tank influential in shaping Obama administration policy, released a
42-page study, which Marshall Fitz, the group’s director of immigration
policy, calls “a roadmap for executive action on immigration.”

The study claims Obama has authority to use enforcement reforms and
affirmative relief to implement his immigration agenda in spite of
opposition in the House.

Reform involves prioritizing how and whether enforcement is conducted
when someone comes into contact with the authorities. And the relief
focuses on identifying illegal immigrants considered low priority for
deportation, then creating a procedure for them to seek temporary
protection from being removed from the country, according to the report.

Sugura and Center for American Progress officials acknowledge that
Obama cannot stop all deportations, that any executive action is
temporary and only Capitol Hill legislation can provide a permanent
solution, which they say should include a path to legal status and
eventual citizenship for the roughly 11.7 million illegal immigrants
living in the country.

Obama argues he has been compelled to act in large part because of
the recent surge in unaccompanied Central American children showing up
by the thousands at the U.S.-Mexico border and the GOP-controlled
House’s unwillingness to vote on the issue until at least after the
November elections.

"American cannot wait forever ... ," Obama said Monday. "That is why,
today, I am beginning a new effort to fix as much of our immigration
system as I can on my own, without Congress."

House Speaker John Boehner and other members of the House Republican
Caucus argue the recent border problem is the result of executive
actions that have enticed people to try to enter the U.S. illegally. And
they plan to sue Obama over his use of such actions, serving notice
that more moves by the president on immigration would only stiffen their
opposition.

"If the president insists on enacting amnesty by executive order, he
will undoubtedly face a lawsuit and will find himself, once again, on
the wrong side of the Constitution and the law," said Texas GOP Rep.
Lamar Smith.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

One of President Obama’s first moves toward trying to “fix” the U.S.
immigration system without Congress will almost certainly be to expand
on his 2012 executive order postponing deportation for potentially
millions of young illegal immigrants, say experts on both sides of the
debate.

Obama will likely sidestep Congress on immigration reform by
expanding on his so-called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
memorandum, which essentially allows young illegal immigrants to remain
in the United States if they were brought into the country illegally by
their parents and have not been convicted of a major crime, Federation
for American Immigration Reform spokesman Ira Mehlman predicted.

“I expect him to continue to ignore U.S. immigration law,” Mehlman
said. “This can all be traced back to the DACA program … under the guise
of not splitting up families.”

Although many Republicans believe President Obama is overreaching on
the issue by advancing his immigration agenda without the support of
Congress, there is broad support among Latinos, labor groups and other
Democrat constituencies for him to act unilaterally.

The idea of extending delayed deportation to parents of young illegal
immigrants also appears popular among Hispanic voters and will likely
be recommended to the president by pro-immigration-reform groups with
whom he has reportedly met in recent weeks.

A poll of registered Hispanic voters for the Center for American
Progress Action Fund found strong support for renewing DACA as well as
delaying deportation for the parents of young illegals protected under
the program, people married to U.S. citizens and those living illegally
in the United States for more than 10 years.

The respondents were “super excited” about such actions if they
included the option of a work permit for illegals, said Gary Sugura of
Latino Decisions, the opinion research group that conducted the poll. He
also pointed out that Democratic candidates running in 2014 and beyond
would benefit significantly from such changes.

The respondents were less supportive of so-called prosecutorial
discretion, which essentially gives immigration officials say over which
cases to pursue and prosecute.

As a sign of just how important the work permit issue is to
pro-immigration advocates, particularly big business and organized
labor, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Janet Murguia, head of the
National Council of La Raza, a Latino advocacy group, on Tuesday called
on Obama to provide work permits to everyone who would have been
eligible for citizenship under the bipartisan immigration bill passed
last year by the Senate.

Obama has already taken the first step in directing Homeland Security
Secretary Jeh Johnson and Attorney General Eric Holder to shift
resources from the U.S. interior to the Mexico border. And he has asked
both for recommendations by the end of summer on the types of executive
actions he could take.

“And I intend to adopt those recommendations without further delay,” Obama said in his Rose Garden remarks Monday.

In addition, the Center for American Progress, the liberal-leaning
think tank influential in shaping Obama administration policy, released a
42-page study, which Marshall Fitz, the group’s director of immigration
policy, calls “a roadmap for executive action on immigration.”

The study claims Obama has authority to use enforcement reforms and
affirmative relief to implement his immigration agenda in spite of
opposition in the House.

Reform involves prioritizing how and whether enforcement is conducted
when someone comes into contact with the authorities. And the relief
focuses on identifying illegal immigrants considered low priority for
deportation, then creating a procedure for them to seek temporary
protection from being removed from the country, according to the report.

Sugura and Center for American Progress officials acknowledge that
Obama cannot stop all deportations, that any executive action is
temporary and only Capitol Hill legislation can provide a permanent
solution, which they say should include a path to legal status and
eventual citizenship for the roughly 11.7 million illegal immigrants
living in the country.

Obama argues he has been compelled to act in large part because of
the recent surge in unaccompanied Central American children showing up
by the thousands at the U.S.-Mexico border and the GOP-controlled
House’s unwillingness to vote on the issue until at least after the
November elections.

"American cannot wait forever ... ," Obama said Monday. "That is why,
today, I am beginning a new effort to fix as much of our immigration
system as I can on my own, without Congress."

House Speaker John Boehner and other members of the House Republican
Caucus argue the recent border problem is the result of executive
actions that have enticed people to try to enter the U.S. illegally. And
they plan to sue Obama over his use of such actions, serving notice
that more moves by the president on immigration would only stiffen their
opposition.

"If the president insists on enacting amnesty by executive order, he
will undoubtedly face a lawsuit and will find himself, once again, on
the wrong side of the Constitution and the law," said Texas GOP Rep.
Lamar Smith.

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